YOSHITOSHI  (1839-1892). Imamuraskai. (Sold)

YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892). Imamuraskai. (Sold)

Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Subject: Imamuraskai, a prostitute of the Kimpei Daikoku house.
Series: Kinsei jimbutsushi (Personalities of Recent Times). Yamato shinbun supplement no. 139.
Signature: Yoshitoshi and artist seal Taiso
Date: 29th March Meiji 20 (1887)
Publisher: Yamato shinbun
Block-cutter: Enkatsu
Size: Oban tate-e, 25,7x24,2 cm
Medium: Woodblock print.
Literature: Roger Keyes. Courage and Silence: A Study of the Life and Color Woodblock Prints of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: 1839-1892. Ann Arbor, 1983, no. 488.
Conditions: Very good impression and color, the usual trimming on the right margin, good conditions.
Item no: C 997
Status: Sold